I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANGiven our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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